Brenda Farnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 85565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda Farnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda |
| FAMILY NAME | Farnell |
| SIGNATURE | FARNELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 297 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Body, Embodiment
This entry outlines disembodied language ideology inherited from Western philosophy and the effects of mind–body, verbal/nonverbal dualisms on anthropological and linguistic thought. It summarizes theoretical moves away from language as self‐contained vocal‐auditory code toward language as interactive, multimodal, and therefore embodied
Mindful Body
Although the term “mindful body” appears in vernacular discourses pertaining to Western health and wellness industries, alternative medicine, and dance and movement arts, it appears to have entered the anthropological literature in the inaugural issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1987). Authors Nancy Scheper‐Hughes and Margaret Lock used “mindful body” to draw attention to initial attempts to “problematize the body” in anthropology and othe…
Techniques of the Body
The phrase “techniques of the body” first entered anthropological discourse as “les techniques du corps,” the title of a 1934 essay by the French scholar Marcel Mauss (1872–1950). A prominent member of Émile Durkheim's Année Sociologique group, Mauss is widely known for his anthropological contributions to magic, sacrifice, and gift exchange. His largely forgotten attention to the social nature of embodied action was rediscovered during the wides…
Dynamic embodiment for social theory: I move therefore I am
This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just ‘the body’ at the heart of theories of social action. It draws together several lines of thinking in contemporary social science: about the human body and its moveme…
The Second Somatic Revolution1
This paper proposes a dynamic theory of embodiment that aims to get beyond the absent moving body in embodied social theory. The first somatic revolution, inspired by Merleau Ponty, provided theories based on the feeling and experience of the body. The theory of dynamic embodiment focuses instead on the doing itself as embodied social action, in which the embodied person is fore-grounded as a complex resource for meaning making. This represents a…
Zero-Sum Game: An Update on the Native American Mascot Controversy at the University of Illinois
The Fancy Dance of Racializing Discourse
In the United States, the Euro-American practice of using stereotypical Native American imagery and dancing in association with athletic mascots continues despite vigorous protest. This suggests that American Indians occupy a different semiotic space than other U.S. minorities who are no longer subject to such explicit racializing representations. This article asks how and why non–Native Americans endow Indian mascots with significance. Analysis …
Commentary
Birdwhistell, Hall, Lomax and the Origins of Visual Anthropology
This commentary' calls for an appreciative but rigorous, critical analysis of three pioneering figures in the anthropology of human movement and visual aspects of human communication. I maintain that their many theoretical and methodological contributions require historical contextualization, taking into account earlier paradigms, subsequent developments, and alternative approaches. The essay makes a number of suggestions for developing a more sa…
Getting out of the habitus: An Alternative Model of Dynamically Embodied Social Action
Although Bourdieu's theory of practice has drawn widespread attention to the role of the body and space in social life, the concept of habitus is problematic as an explanatory account of dynamic embodiment because it lacks an adequate conception of the nature and location of human agency. An alternative model is presented which locates agency in the causal powers and capacities of embodied persons to engage in dialogic, signifying acts. Grounded …
Linguists Urge Boycott of Illinois
Moving Bodies, Acting Selves
This review describes a paradigmatic shift in anthropological studies of human movement, from an observationist view of behavior to a conception of body movement as dynamically embodied action. After outlining the scope of such study, historical and cultural reasons for the relative neglect of body movement in anthropological enquiry are examined critically and placed in the wider context of recent social and cultural theorizing about the body an…
"Retire the "Chief
Do You See What I Mean? Plains Indian Talk and the Embodiment of Action
Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices:Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices. Lisa Philips Valentine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 252 pp
Paradigms lost
Metaphors we move by
The Iroquois Eagle Dance: An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance
Ethnography Goes Interactive
A travers l'exemple de sa recherche sur les recits des Indiens des Plaines assiniboines (ou nakota) enregistres sur cassettes video, l'A. montre en quoi le CD-ROM est un outil multimedia (textes transcrits, films, photographies, commentaires, etc) et interactif de premier ordre utile en anthropologie
Ethno-Graphics and the Moving Body
L'A. debute avec un bref commentaire portant sur une photographie tiree de l'oeuvre d'Evans-Pritchard, et qui illustre un probleme fondamental dans la perception occidentale du mouvement corporel humain. On suggere que l'interet grandissant pour le « corps » n'a pas encore permis de theoriser la personne comme agent en mouvement, absente jusqu'a ce jour de la theorie culturelle et des ecrits ethnographiques. On avance l'idee que la nouvelle persp…
Nak'ota mak'oc'e: An American Indian Storytelling Performance
it is not at all uncommon for people to perform their history. Perform, not only in the sense of reciting epic poetry and myths, but by engaging in complex and elaborate structured movement that quite literally embodies their traditions. Kaeppler (in press), for example, has shown how Hawaiian history is performed through the intricate connections between sung poetry and actions of the hula tradition. Williams (1991) and Arnold (in prep.) have ex…
Moving Bodies, Acting Selves
This review describes a paradigmatic shift in anthropological studies of human movement, from an observationist view of behavior to a conception of body movement as dynamically embodied action. After outlining the scope of such study, historical and cultural reasons for the relative neglect of body movement in anthropological enquiry are examined critically and placed in the wider context of recent social and cultural theorizing about the body an…
Ethno-Graphics and the Moving Body
L'A. debute avec un bref commentaire portant sur une photographie tiree de l'oeuvre d'Evans-Pritchard, et qui illustre un probleme fondamental dans la perception occidentale du mouvement corporel humain. On suggere que l'interet grandissant pour le « corps » n'a pas encore permis de theoriser la personne comme agent en mouvement, absente jusqu'a ce jour de la theorie culturelle et des ecrits ethnographiques. On avance l'idee que la nouvelle persp…
Getting out of the habitus: An Alternative Model of Dynamically Embodied Social Action
Although Bourdieu's theory of practice has drawn widespread attention to the role of the body and space in social life, the concept of habitus is problematic as an explanatory account of dynamic embodiment because it lacks an adequate conception of the nature and location of human agency. An alternative model is presented which locates agency in the causal powers and capacities of embodied persons to engage in dialogic, signifying acts. Grounded …
The Fancy Dance of Racializing Discourse
In the United States, the Euro-American practice of using stereotypical Native American imagery and dancing in association with athletic mascots continues despite vigorous protest. This suggests that American Indians occupy a different semiotic space than other U.S. minorities who are no longer subject to such explicit racializing representations. This article asks how and why non–Native Americans endow Indian mascots with significance. Analysis …
Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance
The Second Somatic Revolution1
This paper proposes a dynamic theory of embodiment that aims to get beyond the absent moving body in embodied social theory. The first somatic revolution, inspired by Merleau Ponty, provided theories based on the feeling and experience of the body. The theory of dynamic embodiment focuses instead on the doing itself as embodied social action, in which the embodied person is fore-grounded as a complex resource for meaning making. This represents a…
Metaphors we move by
The Iroquois Eagle Dance: An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance
Birdwhistell, Hall, Lomax and the Origins of Visual Anthropology
This commentary' calls for an appreciative but rigorous, critical analysis of three pioneering figures in the anthropology of human movement and visual aspects of human communication. I maintain that their many theoretical and methodological contributions require historical contextualization, taking into account earlier paradigms, subsequent developments, and alternative approaches. The essay makes a number of suggestions for developing a more sa…
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices. Lisa Philips Valentine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 252 pp
Techniques of the Body
The phrase “techniques of the body” first entered anthropological discourse as “les techniques du corps,” the title of a 1934 essay by the French scholar Marcel Mauss (1872–1950). A prominent member of Émile Durkheim's Année Sociologique group, Mauss is widely known for his anthropological contributions to magic, sacrifice, and gift exchange. His largely forgotten attention to the social nature of embodied action was rediscovered during the wides…
Zero-Sum Game: An Update on the Native American Mascot Controversy at the University of Illinois
"Retire the "Chief
Paradigms lost
Nak'ota mak'oc'e: An American Indian Storytelling Performance
it is not at all uncommon for people to perform their history. Perform, not only in the sense of reciting epic poetry and myths, but by engaging in complex and elaborate structured movement that quite literally embodies their traditions. Kaeppler (in press), for example, has shown how Hawaiian history is performed through the intricate connections between sung poetry and actions of the hula tradition. Williams (1991) and Arnold (in prep.) have ex…
Ethno-Graphics and the Moving Body
L'A. debute avec un bref commentaire portant sur une photographie tiree de l'oeuvre d'Evans-Pritchard, et qui illustre un probleme fondamental dans la perception occidentale du mouvement corporel humain. On suggere que l'interet grandissant pour le « corps » n'a pas encore permis de theoriser la personne comme agent en mouvement, absente jusqu'a ce jour de la theorie culturelle et des ecrits ethnographiques. On avance l'idee que la nouvelle persp…
The Iroquois Eagle Dance: An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance
Ethnography Goes Interactive
A travers l'exemple de sa recherche sur les recits des Indiens des Plaines assiniboines (ou nakota) enregistres sur cassettes video, l'A. montre en quoi le CD-ROM est un outil multimedia (textes transcrits, films, photographies, commentaires, etc) et interactif de premier ordre utile en anthropologie
Paradigms lost
Metaphors we move by
Do You See What I Mean? Plains Indian Talk and the Embodiment of Action
Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices:Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices. Lisa Philips Valentine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 252 pp
"Retire the "Chief
Linguists Urge Boycott of Illinois
Moving Bodies, Acting Selves
This review describes a paradigmatic shift in anthropological studies of human movement, from an observationist view of behavior to a conception of body movement as dynamically embodied action. After outlining the scope of such study, historical and cultural reasons for the relative neglect of body movement in anthropological enquiry are examined critically and placed in the wider context of recent social and cultural theorizing about the body an…
Getting out of the habitus: An Alternative Model of Dynamically Embodied Social Action
Although Bourdieu's theory of practice has drawn widespread attention to the role of the body and space in social life, the concept of habitus is problematic as an explanatory account of dynamic embodiment because it lacks an adequate conception of the nature and location of human agency. An alternative model is presented which locates agency in the causal powers and capacities of embodied persons to engage in dialogic, signifying acts. Grounded …
Commentary
Birdwhistell, Hall, Lomax and the Origins of Visual Anthropology
This commentary' calls for an appreciative but rigorous, critical analysis of three pioneering figures in the anthropology of human movement and visual aspects of human communication. I maintain that their many theoretical and methodological contributions require historical contextualization, taking into account earlier paradigms, subsequent developments, and alternative approaches. The essay makes a number of suggestions for developing a more sa…
Zero-Sum Game: An Update on the Native American Mascot Controversy at the University of Illinois
The Fancy Dance of Racializing Discourse
In the United States, the Euro-American practice of using stereotypical Native American imagery and dancing in association with athletic mascots continues despite vigorous protest. This suggests that American Indians occupy a different semiotic space than other U.S. minorities who are no longer subject to such explicit racializing representations. This article asks how and why non–Native Americans endow Indian mascots with significance. Analysis …
The Second Somatic Revolution1
This paper proposes a dynamic theory of embodiment that aims to get beyond the absent moving body in embodied social theory. The first somatic revolution, inspired by Merleau Ponty, provided theories based on the feeling and experience of the body. The theory of dynamic embodiment focuses instead on the doing itself as embodied social action, in which the embodied person is fore-grounded as a complex resource for meaning making. This represents a…
Dynamic embodiment for social theory: I move therefore I am
This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just ‘the body’ at the heart of theories of social action. It draws together several lines of thinking in contemporary social science: about the human body and its moveme…
Mindful Body
Although the term “mindful body” appears in vernacular discourses pertaining to Western health and wellness industries, alternative medicine, and dance and movement arts, it appears to have entered the anthropological literature in the inaugural issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1987). Authors Nancy Scheper‐Hughes and Margaret Lock used “mindful body” to draw attention to initial attempts to “problematize the body” in anthropology and othe…
Techniques of the Body
The phrase “techniques of the body” first entered anthropological discourse as “les techniques du corps,” the title of a 1934 essay by the French scholar Marcel Mauss (1872–1950). A prominent member of Émile Durkheim's Année Sociologique group, Mauss is widely known for his anthropological contributions to magic, sacrifice, and gift exchange. His largely forgotten attention to the social nature of embodied action was rediscovered during the wides…
Body, Embodiment
This entry outlines disembodied language ideology inherited from Western philosophy and the effects of mind–body, verbal/nonverbal dualisms on anthropological and linguistic thought. It summarizes theoretical moves away from language as self‐contained vocal‐auditory code toward language as interactive, multimodal, and therefore embodied
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